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DENVER — Get ready for more cone zones! Paving season is underway in Denver. This year, the Mile High City will spend $27 million dollars to repave arterial and collector streets. A chunk of that cash, $1.2 million, is marijuana money. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said Denver receives about $13 to 14 million a year…

It’s fair to say that Jeff Sessions did not achieve his station in life by listening to reason. As U.S. senator, Sessions achieved a reputation as a bizarre but ultimately harmless outsider with, ahem, retrograde views. As attorney general, when he is not being publicly excoriated by President Donald Trump for failing to use the…

It should go without saying that the federal government is no friend to legal cannabis. Since the late 1970s, when the nation’s first medical cannabis law was passed by the New Mexico state legislature, the feds have been pushing back against state-level decriminalization through every government agency available, from the DOJ and FBI to the…

A dash of bee pollen, a sprinkle of spirulina, a scoop of pea protein and a couple drops of CBD — Cannabidiol-rich hemp extracts are blending in nicely at juice and smoothie bars across the country. Colorado’s CW Hemp just inked a deal to sell their high-CBD whole plant hemp extracts at California organic-vegan food,…

In a move that seems to shed more doubt than certainty on domestic cannabis cultivation and the date that it will start auf Deutschland, the Higher Regional Court (or OLG) in Dusseldorf formally stopped the pending bid procedure for the first crop on March 28th. BfArM, the federal agency in charge of regulating all narcotic…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois medical marijuana companies may have to deal in cash after the main bank serving them decided to pull out of the industry. The Chicago Tribune reports that the Bank of Springfield informed cannabis clients last month it would close their accounts May 21. The decision to withdraw is tied to the…

The cannabis industry of the United States is unlike other horticulture markets in the country. It’s younger, less traditional and with roots in a black market, it’s no surprise that its forerunners aren’t afraid to experiment with new approaches and technology. The rapid adoption of IoT (Internet of Things) technology is one way in particular…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The owner of a Chicago convenience store and two employees have been charged with selling synthetic marijuana that has been linked to two deaths. Federal prosecutors have charged 48-year-old Fouad Masoud and 44-year-old Jad Allah, both of suburban Justice, and 44-year-old Adil Khan Mohammed of Chicago with conspiring to distribute and sell…

Veterans organizations fighting for medical marijuana access reacted with both hope and skepticism to President Donald Trump’s latest shakeup at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump ousted VA Secretary David Shulkin via tweet late Wednesday and announced that he would nominate for the position Dr. Ronny Jackson, 50, an active-duty rear admiral in the Navy who…

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan regulators said Thursday that they ordered the closure of 210 medical marijuana businesses over a two-week period, largely because their owners failed to apply for a state license by a mid-February deadline or did not receive authorization from their municipalities. Most of the shops — 158 — were in Detroit. Authorities…

On March 27, about two dozen cannabis advocates rallied at the John A. Wilson Building, the seat of Washington, D.C.’s municipal government, handing out joints and seeds to the public — and even getting at least one councilmember to accept a joint. After the activists moved into the building, they settled outside the room where…

Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo encouraging federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for certain drug trafficking offenses. Federal law allows for capital punishment in drug trafficking cases involving murder or homicide. But the attorney general also specifically called out one provision that allows for capital punishment in cases involving “extremely…